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The literal version of the video for "Love is a Battlefield" is quite amusing.

Of course, real battlefields are kind of boring unless one is a hardcore history buff.



But I guess, "Love Costs Ten Bucks For The Tour (Plus Two-Fifty Extra For The Commemorative Thimble)" would lack a certain Top 40 brevity, wouldn't it?

Probably not during the battle, however.

You sank my battleship!

And I enjoyed every second of the experience.

In retrospect, naming it the "Merrimack" might not have been the best idea you ever had.

Especially given the number of Monitors in comics.

no one ever gets assigned Merrimack duty.

Here is a picture of a Monitor lizard.



There are no pictures of a Merrimack lizard.

It just goes to show you how winners rewrite history.

"The Merrimack" was, of course, not actually the name of the ship at the time it was sunk. The alliterative "The Monitor vs The Merrimack" sounds better, however, than the more historically accurate "The Monitor vs The Virginia".

Only if you accept the Confederate renaming of the Merrimack.

And really, who wants to do that?

The Merrimack, of course, was named for the Merrimack River in southern New Hampshire and northeast Massachusetts. It runs through the old industrial cities of Manchester and Nashua, New Hampshire, and Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill, Massachusetts.

I once spent three months in Haverhill on a work project. Some beautiful territory there.

One theory has that Haverhill is the inspiration for Riverdale in the Archie comics. The Riverdale high school is similarly designed like the Haverhill high school that series artist Bob Montana attended.

Some of the tourist pamphlets I saw in my hotel played up the Archie Comics connection.

"Haverhill" is one of those places where you can tell when people aren't from New England--or aren't familiar with it--by how they pronounce it. I'll admit, if I didn't know it was "HAY-vril", I probably wouldn't guess that.

I probably would have pronounced it "HAY-ver-hill" had I not been informed of the correct pronunciation before the trip.

When I was little, I thought it was "HAVE-er-hill". The "hayve" part reminds me of my father (whose first language is not English) asking us if we were "being hayve" instead of "behaving". My sister was so used to hearing it said thus, that she was 30 before she understood why it was wrong. I remember that "Light dawns over Marblehead" moment she had when I explained to her that there was no such word as "hayve".

Growing up, my dad would say "Watch your dupa" meaning watch your ass. I always thought it was just another slang term for ass until I was an adult and suddenly realized that "dupa" is the Polish word for ass.

I've always pronounced it "HAVE-er-hill," and never gave it much thought. Just a place on a map, and an exit not taken on the highway.

I'll always have fond memories of the place.

No one willing to touch my dupa, eh?

okay, who helped Chief hack Quis's account!?